Happy Friday Nostriches 🥂

I want something like this for Bitcoin

I’m watching this (self-funded I think) documentary about Coinbase on Prime right now. It just reminds me that Bitcoin is a long-term bet, there will be spikes in interest and major drops. It might take 1, 5, 10, 100 years for people to get it. But, we do it because it’s right. Not because it’s fast. This might take a while…

#ChatGPT just wrote a caching layer for my API for me, I love this thing:

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gn all, wagmi, sweet Zaps

Once you Zap, you never go back

I think I did an accidental blog post.

One year ago I was a frustrated lover of Bitcoin, I didn’t know what to do. I’ve been learning about Bitcoin and Lightning for years. I was even at the meetup where this was introduced: https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf But still, I didn’t know what to do. I desperately wanted to do SOMETHING. I spent years of my free time learning all about Bitcoin, mining, transactions, segwit, Lightning, etc. Still, I didn’t know how I could add to anything. What could I contribute? I’m not that smart. I can’t do cryptography well. I know a lot about Bitcoin but there’s nothing new I think needs to be added. Lightning was another chance to be at the vanguard but I wasn’t good enough to contribute on that level. Then, after years of feeling on the outside of something I love I decided to go to BTC Miami. I don’t know what it’s actually called. When I was there I just wanted so bad to be a part of one of these awesome projects. When people asked me what I did. All I could say was that I love Bitcoin and I want to help. A lot of people feel that way I think. But, since then I made it a goal of mine to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING that contributes to the thing I love. That was Nostr. Specifically Damus. I finally found something I could do. It’s not a huge contribution but I feel like I’m finally in the arena. I have a foothold on something that I can work on. I feel so grateful that we have Bitcoin, it attracted the kind of people that would create Nostr. Thank you. If you’re like me, just keep looking. It will happen. You can contribute, you’re valuable. Just find you’re spot 💜

Every time I look at Twitter now I’m just bored. Wasn’t like that a couple weeks ago. We’re doing something right.